I can't add my prepaid debit card as payment method. Why?

[alexeyw]

It’s my the only available method for payment in Stripe

[mayailurus]

Hi… The following is the reason, last I heard:

@kurt

We don’t allow prepaid cards, though. The card on file needs to be something we can expect to work in 9 months when you ship the next facebook and provision 1,000 servers to make it work (your facebook will be more efficient, obviously).

The intended work-around is to purchase $25 worth of credits up front, which I understand does work with a prepaid card. The main disadvantages are that (a) this amount is deducted from your card right away and (b) the $5 monthly waiver no longer applies.

I use prepurchased credits myself and have never seen problems—despite creating and destroying tons of machines over time.

Hope this helps!